Introduction

Welcome to the Beagle Brook blog! Aspen Design Inc. is a custom home design/build company that focuses on design that appeals to the style and taste of our clients while maintaining a sustainable and green approach. We invite you to join us on the journey as we build the “Beagle Brook Farm” home, a passive solar structure in Northeast Ohio. The goal of this blog is to accomplish three things. First, we want to introduce our company and the service we provide to our readers. Second, we want to share our passion for building a more sustainable future, and third, we want your feedback. We look forward to reading your comments and questions, so please share them with us.


Wikipedia defines a passive solar building as one that aims to maintain interior thermal comfort throughout the sun’s daily and annual cycles while reducing the requirement for active heating and cooling systems. Our main objective in designing Beagle Brook was to produce a passive solar home with a thermally comfortable interior environment that expends minimal energy to support the mechanical heating and cooling systems. Healthy indoor air quality and reduced utility bills are important to the homeowners. Working with them, we determined that the direct gain system was the best approach for Beagle Brook. The main principles that are incorporated with the direct gain system are:

1) Allow maximum solar radiation to reach the interior during the colder months.

2) Shade the interior from solar radiation during the warmer months.

3) Use thermal mass to control and disperse the solar radiation, and

4) Design a well-insulated structure to control the different interior and exterior environments.

During our Beagle Brook journey, we will explain how these principles guided our design decisions and highlight some of the special details and features we are using to create a well-insulated structure.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Concrete Floor Pictures

Here are a couple pictures of the interior concrete floor. It will be a few weeks before it has completely cured and the stain and finish can be applied. You can see the wood inlays that were placed before the pour the 2x material will be unscrewed and clear oak will be laid down to give the open floor plan a sense of organized room locations. In the photo to the right you can see how we exemplified the wood details with the necessary saw cuts. Now that the floor has been poured we can build the rest of the interior walls. We waited to build these so the floor would have continuity from the front the home (the south facing side) to the rear of the home (the north facing side). This will allow the heat gained from solar radiation to flow over the entire first floor.
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